Example sentences of "and to an [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 To take a particular example , loyalty to a cause and to an individual is demonstrated with great variety in a body of fiction which has come to be known generically as Ruritanian romance .
2 Fluctuations occurred throughout the year : the deficit in May was $10,200 million , an increase of 23.6 per cent over April due to an increase in imports of oil and industrial equipment and to the effect on exports of the rise in value of the dollar ; in July and September the deficits fell to a five-year low due to a decline in the purchase of foreign machinery and consumer goods , and to an increase in aircraft exports .
3 ‘ ( 2 ) A person secures access to any program or data held in a computer if by causing a computer to perform any function he — ( a ) alters or erases the program or data ; ( b ) copies or moves it to any storage medium other than that in which it is held or to a different location in the storage medium in which it is held ; ( c ) uses it ; or ( d ) has it output from the computer in which it is held ( whether by having it displayed or in any other manner ) ; and references to access to a program or data ( and to an intent to secure such access ) shall be read accordingly .
4 It then turned to establishing the modes and media of thought in design and to an outline of some neurological bases of design ability .
5 Freidson ( 1977 , p.15 ) warns us that ‘ … confusion lies in the fact that the word profession is used to refer both to concrete historical occupations and to an intellectual construct or ideal type , without consistent attention to the relationship between the two ’ .
6 How much greater then the difficulty of conveying the mystery in words , and to an age reluctant to contemplate those experiences where the pathos of our animal nature stands in greatest tension with the highest aspirations of the soul !
7 The failure of the DUP to endorse the illegality of working-class loyalists , which stems from a general reluctance to break the law and an evaluation of the present situation which argues that such extreme acts are not yet justified , should have made it unpopular with working-class loyalists and to an extent it has .
8 And to an extent this is why 1993 will be hard at times .
9 One of the main failings of fleece , and for that matter fibre pile ( and to an extent wool before it ) , is the material 's inability to prevent the cooling effects of wind .
10 And to an extent , a hat can regulate the way the rest of you feels .
11 One side effect of these divided responsibilities is that Skymaster , and to an extent Prestel itself , has never been effectively sold to its intended market to any great degree .
12 There is a continuous debate in media circles , for example , about how to reach light ITV viewers , who tend to be concentrated among better-off , and to an extent younger , people .
13 Piaget 's is an epigenetic sequence in the sense that each stage is dependent upon the previous developments and to an extent absorbs , rather than replaces , the early stages .
14 Therefore voluntary aided schools are in effect a kind of partnership : the premises are provided and to an extent kept up by the religious or other body which established them whilst the cost of running the schools is borne by the public purse .
15 It had never really occurred to me to put things in those terms but I can see what he meant and to an extent he was partly right .
16 Case studies take account of , and to an extent they celebrate , uniqueness .
17 To see something really special today though requires a discerning nature and to an extent it depends upon which technique you want to see at its best .
18 And to an extent , we ran through this same debate erm at the greenbelt local plan enquiry for two days during September er nineteen ninety two .
19 Northamptonshire mumming , Shrovetide football , and " Plough Mondays " are examples of practices which were no longer encouraged and to an extent positively discouraged by a gentry which increasingly distanced itself from rude diversions and vulgar games .
20 In a " Patois " situation , each participant may choose to use Creole or not , and to an extent to which that speaker feels comfortable .
21 Galwey and Popplewell , and to an extent O'Hara and the much-maligned Francis , produced outstanding performances which , if repeated against Wales and England , could secure them tickets for the trip to New Zealand .
22 Do you think this er really goes back to the fundamental issue which the Good Committee did n't really address which was the issue of ownership of the pension funds and assets and that whilst pensioners and to an extent employers these days regard the pension fund as deferred pay and pensions payments as deferred pay , the ownership of those funds is still left erm neither still er an argument about wh wh who owns the funds and er a lot of this follows on from that .
23 This provision is subject to the bankrupt not having been bankrupt previously within the fifteen years prior to the adjudication ( Sched 11 , para 13(1) and ( 2 ) ) and to an application by the official receiver under the equivalent of s 279(3) ( ibid , para 13(3) ) .
24 They talked about Robert 's exhibition , and to an outsider the scene would have appeared normal : a group of friends in an English house on an English evening .
25 Before the sale , Murphy and Cree deliberately gave some of their stake to their fellow directors and to an employee trust as a means of motivation .
26 Duncan and Goodwin thus claim that it is the localized heterogeneity of economic , social and cultural relations , and the plurality of influences which result , that is crucial to the distinctiveness of the local state , and to an understanding of the myriad forms of local politics which are produced .
27 The project is seen as a contribution to the study of medieval Welsh society and to an understanding of the nature and potential of court-roll evidence for the study of medieval society .
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